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have a philips iqon pc and i want to upgrade the hdd. think there is only a 40gb in it at the moment. How do i find out what sort of HARD drive it is and where to go to get another one all be it a higher one. kinda stuck here at the moment so help would be appreciatedOpen up a side panel...
See what connectors go to the HDD...
If it's a 2" flat wide ribbon cable it's an IDE HDD...
If it's a thinner 1/2' wide cable then it's a SATA HDD.

My guess being a 40G HDD it's most likely IDE. Quote from: patio on February 18, 2014, 09:03:23 AM

If it's a thinner 1/2' wide cable then it's a SATA HDD.

What sort of SATA cable is 1/2 a foot wide?"........".....

You never hit a wrong key before ? ?Ah just realised US keyboards use the same key for ' and ". UK keyboards have " as shift+2 ( ' is in the same place) so from my perspective it's quite a strange mistake.any CHANCE of an answer on my question or are you not bothered
It's answered above in the 2nd Post...Your PC has SATA ports so any modern drive will work. I would recommend today the  Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 16MB 500GB drive, great drive, good price, good performance 3 year warranty you should be able to connect the new drive up and image the old drive using .

Seagate DiscWizard works with Maxtor and Seagate disc drives. The SOFTWARE lets you quickly install your new disc drive with wizards that guide you through the processes of creating and formatting partitions on your disc drive, transferring data, and backing up your data. Avaliable here http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/discwizard/


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thx lisa, much better reply and i know what is going on now


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